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We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England at that time, with the bombings, necessitated the evacuation of children.
Peter Shaffer

Biography

Author Profession: Playwright
Nationality: English
Born: May 15, 1926

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You can't always let people do their own thing.
Peter Shaffer

I think possibly the first film that has music as its leading character.
Peter Shaffer

But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own.
Peter Shaffer

I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything.
Peter Shaffer

I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did.
Peter Shaffer

They look so expectant, and then they look so depressed... that was the other great lesson that The Royal Hunt of the Sun taught me, it was the profundity that masked drama can achieve, that of course, the audience were not seeing masks moving at all.
Peter Shaffer

It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses.
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